Ok, I wasn't going to post this and subject you all to another one of my dumb questions but I have to know, whats up with the ponies?? They have been popping up everywhere and I really don't understand it. Cracked.com talks about them, they have exploded on youtube and even this forum, my safe haven from the internet at large, is going on about them. For you new people, this site can go on long rants about the proper technique for cranial removal of the newly undead so ponies confuse me...

I won't sit here and say I hate it, I don't know enough about it thats why I need your help; what is it about this show that makes it so popular?? What is it about this show that makes it stick in so many minds and explode all over my interwebs like a rainbow colored zit?!?! You have to understand my shock at peering into my future through the eitherscope and seeing ponies I mean, I am totally normal and in no way a temporal peeping tom...honest

Anyway, I honestly came here to understand and not just hate it for no reason; if I can sit through two twilight films before saying I hate them I can at least give my little ponies a fair shot. Before anyone says 'watch it' please understand I live with people who would never let me live it down if they caught me watching ponies and any claims to research or that a zombie forum sent me there would only make it worse. If I am going to risk my man card over it I want to understand it a little more going in. So my question, in addition to the above is, WTF??

I don't know. The whole thing is just "I'm a grown(ish) male, and I like a show for little girls!"

That's it. I don't know what else there is to it, and I've tried to research. I feel like the one fucking scholar who wants to learn something about the elder gods but just can't find the one link I need to start hearing voices. All of the people around me are batshit insane, and I just can't see it.

It's just a well written, and well done show with charming characters. Lauren Faust, the writer and animator for it has done several other successful kids shows such as Power Puff Girls, and Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends. I can't exactly place what it is, but I just find it to be an enjoyable show, and I can certainly understand your position of not wanting others to know that you're watching a show, the core demographic being little girls, but I can't really say much more other than that it's just genuinely a well done cartoon.

the writer did power puff girls and foster' home?? Ok that fills me with some hope, doesn't really explain why it got so huge though.

I can't except that it is just the contrary act of watching a show npt ment for you that made it huge, Icanhascheeseburger has a section dedicated to it with no irony in site so it can't just be the contrary thing. Anyone else got anything cause me and Log! are still confusilated??

Anyway, the characters are very well, not convincing, but very fitting and different from eachother which is nicebut im not gonna rattle off all the things wrong with the show because its a show whose target audience is little girls. how did I find out about MLP? My cousins. My little cousins.

The target audience was little girls, and they ended up getting brony fans, instead. I guess that, though girls seem to wish for ponies more than guys do, guys wish for ALL DA PONIES!Secretly. [AmIright.jpg] Except for Dudesomebody, I suppose.

The target audience was little girls, and they ended up getting brony fans, instead. I guess that, though girls seem to wish for ponies more than guys do, guys wish for ALL DA PONIES!Secretly. [AmIright.jpg] Except for Dudesomebody, I suppose.

Depndes on what you mean by 'wish for ALL DA PONIES!' I see way too many 'dont fap to ponies' on youtube to be comfertable...lets just say I am very glad I had the part of my brain that makes involuntary uncomfertable images removed....

Beyond that ugly imagery, I started watching a few episodes and have yet to form an opinion as to quality of show. As a kind of tie in to the above comment though, I am takeing the same precautions in watching it as a paranoid person would while watching porn...not sure what that means but am still glad for the missing brain parts

Kind of inclined to agree with stan; from what little I have seen it seems ok, certainly watchable. If it where its own creature, not my little pony, I imagine it would recieve fewer raised eyebrows. As it stands it seems ok, I will not be refering to myself as a browny anytime soon (i.e. ever) but its a solid kids show and certainly better than garbage they peddle to them now. I'm looking at you adventure time